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New Delhi, India – India plans to send a man to the Moon and set up a space station by 2040, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, as the country ramps up its space programme.
The country “should now aim for new and ambitious goals, including setting up ‘Bharatiya Antariksha Station’ by 2035 and sending first Indian to moon by 2040,” he said in a statement late Tuesday.India runs a low-budget space operation. It became the first to land a craft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole in August and, a month later, successfully launched a spacecraft to observe the outermost layers of the Sun.
The three-day mission, expected to take place next year, aims to send a three-member crew into Earth’s orbit at a cost of about $1.08 billion, according to ISRO.
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